The first and second Aphex Twin albums are a great place to start for minimal techno and ambient, respectively.I'm personally fond of sample-based, hiphop style production, E.G. Dj Shadow and Blue Sky Black Death.

I personally would also recommend acts like Autechre (Amber & Tri Repetae), Anhedonia (Destructive Forces), Ulver (Perdition City),Software (Chip Meditation), Harald Grosskopf, Mark Shreeve, The Future Sound of London and Telemetrik.However - the field of electronic music is so vast that it all depends on what kind of it you may like, more beat-driven, more ambient,more noisy, more dark, more soft etc.pp.

Anyway - here are two tracks from some of the mentioned artists to give you sth for your ears

Seconding Autechre, and adding Plaid. Also µ-Ziq. Hunting around the Warp label will definitely bring you good things.

The first electronic album that really hooked me was Plastikman's Sheet One, way back in 1995 or so. It's basically the disc that fully opened my ears to all things electronic, and it's still an absolutely classic slab of expertly crafted techno. Pretty timeless stuff. Woob's 1194 is another essential.

One album apart from Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works II that people seem to really froth over in terms of classic '90s ambient is Biosphere's Substrata. Though I don't think it's that incredible, it's aged pretty well and I'd recommend it as a nice entry point for things variously electronic and ambient-ish.

For more vintage classics, try Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxygene and Equinoxe.

Robert Rich's Trances/Drones is an epic volume of synth-based, meditative ambient that was released in 1982 but sounds like it could've been recorded yesterday. Really excellent material if you want a historically relevant entry into minimalist ambient.

If you can, look into anything you can find by Tetsu Inoue. Then use that as a doorway into Germany's shadowy FAX label, a veritable treasure trove of little-known '90s masterpieces.

Autechre, Aphex Twin, and Boards of Canada are highly recommended by me for more modern sounding electronic stuff, also check out some of the older electronic pioneeers like Klaus schulze, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Manuel Gottsching, Conrad Schnitzler, Cluster, to name a few. Some other really good albums I would recommend are Venetian Snares- Rossz csillag alatt született (modern classical mixed with breakcore, very unique sounding album), Global Communication- 76:14, Porter Ricks- Biokinetics, The orb- The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld.

It should help you get a better idea exactly what styles of electronic music you like. After all, "electronic music" is as much of a genre tag as "guitar music." It's just too broad to offer particularly useful recs.

Squarepusher is the guy who got me into music of any kind, so he's always going to have a spot in my heart.

I'm also going to throw Igorrr's name in the ring, since this is a metal forum. We here might know him better for being the more consistent half of Whourkr, but his latest two solo albums (Nostril and Hallelujah) are downright fantastic breakcore, if you don't mind the weirdness and baroque-style harpsichord stuff.

And while we're going that way, I'd be remiss in failing to mention Venetian Snares. You NEED to listen to Songs About My Cats. Just trust me on this.

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For more vintage classics, try Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxygene and Equinoxe.

Robert Rich's Trances/Drones is an epic volume of synth-based, meditative ambient that was released in 1982 but sounds like it could've been recorded yesterday. Really excellent material if you want a historically relevant entry into minimalist ambient.

If you can, look into anything you can find by Tetsu Inoue. Then use that as a doorway into Germany's shadowy FAX label, a veritable treasure trove of little-known '90s masterpieces.

Anyone else a fan of the mid-'90s Instinct Ambient label? It only ever put out about 15 releases or so, but many of them were pretty fantastic works of experimental ambient and moody electronica. Definitely a classy, tasteful and influential label, however short-lived. Its very first release - the double disc Pharos by SETI - is one of the finest showcases of spaced-the-fuck-out electronic you're liable to find anywhere. A concept album of sorts based on NASA's search for extraterrestrial life. Totally classic shit that has aged very nicely.

I can make a list of albums, artists, tracks that would take you weeks to go over. You kinda have to narrow down a bit the range of music you currently like and most important dislike. Its like asking for Metal suggestions - You can start with Ozzy and Iron Maiden and end up with Dimmu and Pantera and Korpiklaani. So the range is very wide.

I'm a person who can not stand dubstep but likes the more constant house, upbeat, funky, teachnoish small room beats.

Those are 2 hour sessions - so you need to play them for a bit before you get into it. Play it when you are playing a video games, doing home work, so you are not necessarily 100% concentrated on it and have it as a background music kinda. You might need 2-3 plays to start liking some parts of the mix. Some times you are going to close it after 10 minutes because its annoying the shit out of you. Thats good because you know what you dont like which narrows your personal taste search.

I think I'll take a moment here to make a point I always make in electronic music discussions: what most people call "dubstep" (Skrillex, etc) is not dubstep. It's something usually called "brostep."

Classic dubstep, and some of the newer acts carrying on the style under a variety of silly genre tags like "future garage" and "UK bass", are definitely worth a look for people into chilled beats. In my opinion, the whole movement reached its apex with Burial's album Untrue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHtNPzaHO7k

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Final band to check out is Fever Ray. Also check out The Knife, which is the main project of the person behind Fever Ray. I've never really got into The Knife though compared to Fever Ray. I would start with the first self titled album.

Right... and I mean electronic music is such a vast realm, saying one particular artist in one particular niche is "the best" is just kind of nonsensical. Just sayin'. It's too narrow a determination. Maybe I'm taking semantics too seriously here, but still...

Right... and I mean electronic music is such a vast realm, saying one particular artist in one particular niche is "the best" is just kind of nonsensical. Just sayin'. It's too narrow a determination. Maybe I'm taking semantics too seriously here, but still...

I understand and objectively you're right. Just my way of saying I like it

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Basically the only electronic music I listen to is some progressive trance,hip hop instrumentals(J dilla) and the motherfuckin GLITCH MOB

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If like me you have searched and searched for dark electronic music for years, and find the metal guys and ritual acts just not cutting it, a couple recent things came out that win the prize.

raime -- quarter turns over a living lineopening track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccNW4tIEByobut one really needs a quality copy, fired up on a stereo, and a full album listen (it's only approx 34 minutes).

I don't listen to much electronic music and I'm not even going to try to categorize them, but this is the kind I enjoy. I don't listen to that many less famous electronic artists (as I generally don't like it and it quite often seem generic), so they might not be new to you.

Daft Punk - essential listening. Check out their Alive 2007 album especially. and Tron:Legacy RecodedDJ Tiesto - check out Power Mix first (medley of his best stuff) to see if you like it. He's done music for the olympics and such.Skrillex - First of the Year, Bangarang, Scary Monsters, Narcissistic Cannibal...some Deadmau5 - of course Ghosts N Stuff. I forget what other songs I have of his. I like his remix of Rope by the Foo Fighters.The Algorithm - mix of dubstep and metal. Start with Access Denied